In 2014 Peckham Platform commissioned Kathrin to work with service users of Three Cs, a Peckham-based organisation for people with mental health challenges. Money Distribution Machine, Chocolate Converter, Let-Others-be-Nice-To-Me Device and a Perfect Baby Dispenser were just a few desired appliances for life that came out of hands-on workshops and conversations over a six month period.
The exhibition gathered the results of the workshops alongside other unusual devices by invited artists and organisations, including Tim Hunkin’s videos of ‘home made slot machines’, Blake Fall-Conroy’s Minimum Wage Machine, a device for ‘instant animation production’ by Technology Will Save Us and a series of automata from the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre. The centrepiece of the exhibition was the Apparatus, a multifunctional device that continued ideas from the workshops, and turned the gallery into an ad-hoc production site for public distribution with coin pressing, voucher printing, plate spinning, and seed-bomb making.
This exhibition was part of Anxiety 2014, a London-wide arts festival, curated by the Mental Health Foundation. The festival explored anxiety, looking at its causes, how it affects all of our lives, and how it can act as a creative force. Anxiety 2014 presented a dynamic programme of visual art, film, performance, music, dance, theatre and talks across London, including leading art organisations, universities, health care institutions and community centres.
